If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
I would have perished had I not perished.
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